If this hasn't been beaten to death, a longer discussion of the threat of Huawei/ZTE is discussed in this article I wrote for Information Security a few months back: http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/feature/The-Huawei-security-risk-Factor... jms -- Joel M Snyder, 1404 East Lind Road, Tucson, AZ, 85719 Senior Partner, Opus One Phone: +1 520 324 0494 jms@Opus1.COM http://www.opus1.com/jms